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Title: Stressed? It’s the new normal
Source: Financial Times
URL Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/18cc0240- ... 0144feabdc0.html#axzz1kjSUxnTC
Published: Jan 27, 2012
Author: Gillian Tett
Post Date: 2012-01-29 10:34:28 by lucysmom
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Views: 2432
Comments: 6

Are you feeling stressed right now? As 2012 gets under way, plenty of people would probably say “yes.” But when the American Psychological Association recently posed this question, the results were distinctly surprising.

Although 22 per cent of Americans described themselves as “very stressed”, this figure was slightly down on the previous year, when it was 24 per cent – and well below 2007, when it was 32 per cent. Indeed, the measured levels of stress have been dropping steadily over the past five years since the APA started its survey. In 2007, for example, the mean stress level was 6.2 per cent, whereas this year it was “only” 5.2 per cent.

At first glance, this looks odd. America has hardly seen a story of economic growth in the past five years. On the contrary, when the APA first conducted this survey (in summer 2007) the economy was in the midst of a boom.

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#1. To: A K A Stone, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, mininggold, brian s, mcgowanjm (#0)

...while this new mood of cynicism has some debilitating consequences, it also has an advantage: when people have already lost their innocence – or faith – they are less prone to being shocked. Five years of watching “black swan” type events, bad government policies and bizarre economic twists might have made shocks less unsettling.

If people discover they can survive whether the creators rain down scraps from their table or not, and Republicans fear card has been neutralized, what's left for the right?

He who knows best knows how little he knows. Thomas Jefferson

We probably will see widespread civil disorder in the 1980s, as a direct result of our faltering economic system. Ron Paul

lucysmom  posted on  2012-01-29   10:54:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: lucysmom, *Ron Paul for President* (#0)

figure was slightly down

Ron Paul has reduced stress levels across the board. It's conforting to know the O'bungler is history after 2012.

Take a chill pill and enjoy the upcoming Paul presidency.


"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul

Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.

Hondo68  posted on  2012-01-29   11:55:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: hondo68 (#2)

Take a chill pill and enjoy the upcoming Paul presidency.

The worst thing that could happen to Ron Paul and what he represents would be to actually get elected.

He who knows best knows how little he knows. Thomas Jefferson

We probably will see widespread civil disorder in the 1980s, as a direct result of our faltering economic system. Ron Paul

lucysmom  posted on  2012-01-29   11:59:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: lucysmom (#1)

If people discover they can survive whether the creators rain down scraps from their table or not, and Republicans fear card has been neutralized, what's left for the right?

Violence. Only and always the last resort.

Everytime.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-01-30   9:22:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: mcgowanjm (#4)

Violence. Only and always the last resort.

Everytime.

Or irrelevance.

He who knows best knows how little he knows. Thomas Jefferson

We probably will see widespread civil disorder in the 1980s, as a direct result of our faltering economic system. Ron Paul

lucysmom  posted on  2012-01-30   11:32:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: lucysmom (#5)

irrelevance.

Ignoring the State IS the ultimate offense.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-01-30   12:54:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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